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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, February 26, 2026 6:15 pm to 9:
 00 pm \n I\nis Town Hall \n 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto \n\nSpeakers \nSarah Be
 rnstein and Canisia Lubrin \n\nDescription: \nThe Avie Bennett Chair in Ca
 nadian Literature at the University of Toronto presents its annual lecture
 :On Complex Stories: Sarah Bernstein and Canisia Lubrin onstageHosted by D
 avid ChariandyJoin us on Thursday, February 26th for a public lecture and
  dialogue featuring two of Canada’s most celebrated literary authors. When
  do writers insist upon complex, thick, or knotted stories? What are the
  needs and pleasures of such work today?Where: I\nis Town Hall, 2 Sussex 
 Ave, TorontoWhen: Doors open at 6:15. Lecture and dialogue begin at 7:00 
 pm.Refreshments will be served.RSVP link. Bios:Sarah Bernstein is the auth
 or of The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted 
 for the Booker Prize and the Internationaler Literaturpreis. Her work is t
 ranslated in 16 languages. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish 
 Highlands.Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. The au
 thor of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine (2026), and The Worl
 d After Rain (2025), Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell P
 rize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, D
 erek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other dis
 tinctions. She was born in St. Lucia and lives in Whitby.David Chariandy i
 s a writer and critic. Author of the novels Soucouyant and Brother, he ha
 s won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto Book Prize, t
 he Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction
 . A member of the editorial board of Brick: a literary journal, he is Pro
 fessor of English and Avie Bennett Chair of Canadian Literature at the Uni
 versity of Toronto. \n2 Sussex Ave, Toronto \n\nCategories \n Lecture Ser
 ies \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunity
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LOCATION:2 Sussex Ave, Toronto
SUMMARY:The Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature presents its annual l
 ecture: On Complex Stories: Sarah Bernstein and Canisia Lubrin onstage
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